Best time to fly Chicago to Champaign/Urbana

Every month pooled across the years on record, so "July" means July generally rather than one particular July. Full ORD to CMI record →

Best month

May

85.7% on time · 178 flights

Worst month

January

58.4% on time · 138 flights

Month Flights On time Cancelled When late, by
January 138 58.4% 0.72% 69 min
February 132 62% 2.27% 64 min
March 138 75% 4.35% 69 min
April 168 79.8% 2.38% 66 min
May 178 85.7% 1.12% 59 min
June 162 70.1% 3.09% 58 min
July 131 62.2% 3.05% 72 min
August 148 72.4% 2.03% 72 min
September 128 81.3% 0% 77 min
October 160 80% 0% 44 min
November 134 77.2% 8.21% 65 min
December 125 59.7% 4.8% 69 min

What a seasonal pattern can and cannot tell you

Months differ for reasons that repeat — summer thunderstorms in the American interior, winter fog and de-icing in northern Europe, school holidays filling every seat and leaving no slack in the schedule. Those are real and they come back each year.

What the pattern cannot do is forecast a particular flight. A quiet month has late days and a bad month has punctual ones. Treat this as a way to choose between two dates you are indifferent about, not as a promise.